Landfill Check

Leacroft

Inert

Leacroft is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey. It received inert waste between 1963 and 1990, covering about 1 hectares. Reference EAHLD11616, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11616
Site nameLeacroft
AddressStaines
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderGreenham Construction Limited
Licence issued1 July 1977
Licence surrendered15 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1963
Last waste input31 December 1990
Area1 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth East TH
Grid reference504700, 171500

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.